He is an excellent leader of men and he and his staff do a great job developing players and maximizing talent. His play calling can be good, but scares the hell out of me when he has a lead but a team is not yet buried.

I seem to recall a thread started by someone asking if they felt we could win a Super Bowl with Mike McCarthy and Ted Thompson. The author did not. Many others disagreed with the author.

Welp, here we are, in the Super Bowl. Win or not, the doubters should just shut the hell up already.

Coach McCarthy deserves a ton of credit for having this team prepared and focused and able to push through all the adversity we faced this season. Anyone who says he is a bad coach is, quite simply, a moron.

7/10 in my book. He will never inspire like Vince Lombardi, or create a coaching legacy like Walsh, or change the way coaching is done like the greatest coach of all time Paul Brown did. He gets an extra point from here on out for every SB he wins. And like another poster said, scares the hell out of me with the lead in the 4th.

I always saw MM as a bland coach, not very agressive, a little chubby, and not very entertaining, almost bland. But I am pretty sure that he is a lot better of a person working with players and what not than he may seem in press conferences. Is he good, heck yeah. I think he suffered not having a run game this year, and ONLY IN HINDSIGHT do I like that he benched Starks for not practicing enough. The Rodgers -McCarthy combo turned out great, and the Favre - McCarthy combo was a situation of being between a rock and a hard place.

I like Mike. I think he's a very underrated coach who has had to deal with a pile of injuries to some key players no less. He's no Lombardi, but hey, who is? McCarthy/Rodgers has all the makings of a dynamite combo.

Right now, McCarthy is a 9/10. If the Packers win the SB, his grade goes to a 10/10. Here's what I think a HC should be graded on:

- Ability to recruit and hire a top notch coaching staff
- Provide appropriate direction to the coaching staff
- Provides input to the GM on personnel needs
- Gets maximum output from the talent he is given (guys play for him)
- Develops coaching and player talent so that all improve
- Leads the team through adversity
- Provides the structure and framework for the team to function at its best
- Builds solid game plans that can work
- Insures the game is managed properly (play calling, substitutions, challenges, etc)

We only see a few of these in action and he's pretty darn good at them. The stuff that happens behind the scenes is just as important as the play calling that we see on the field.

McCarthy is becoming an elite coach right before our eyes.

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He won't be a 10/10 until he gives the play calling duties to someone else...who's competent. He's not getting it done with this big lead management.

I seem to recall a thread started by someone asking if they felt we could win a Super Bowl with Mike McCarthy and Ted Thompson. The author did not. Many others disagreed with the author.

Welp, here we are, in the Super Bowl. Win or not, the doubters should just shut the hell up already.

Coach McCarthy deserves a ton of credit for having this team prepared and focused and able to push through all the adversity we faced this season. Anyone who says he is a bad coach is, quite simply, a moron.

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I started that thread, but I never said that I didn't think that the Packers could win under MM and Rodgers. I didn't think we would win this year because of a number of things(injuries, running game), but this team has proven me wrong.

I said in my first post "I'm just curious as to what you think. Do you think the tandem of McCarthy and Rodgers will produce a Super Bowl victory? I personally think we have a decent shot at it. I don't know if this year is the year but down the road perhaps. What do you think? Do Rodgers and McCarthy have what it takes?"

I now think this team has what it takes in two weeks. And MM deserves a lot of credit for that.

Right now, McCarthy is a 9/10. If the Packers win the SB, his grade goes to a 10/10. Here's what I think a HC should be graded on:

- Ability to recruit and hire a top notch coaching staff
- Provide appropriate direction to the coaching staff
- Provides input to the GM on personnel needs
- Gets maximum output from the talent he is given (guys play for him)
- Develops coaching and player talent so that all improve
- Leads the team through adversity
- Provides the structure and framework for the team to function at its best
- Builds solid game plans that can work
- Insures the game is managed properly (play calling, substitutions, challenges, etc)

We only see a few of these in action and he's pretty darn good at them. The stuff that happens behind the scenes is just as important as the play calling that we see on the field.

McCarthy is becoming an elite coach right before our eyes.

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If he does become an elite coach, we will, dare I say it...have a dynasty on our hands.

I do think he is vastly underrated though. He reminds me Bellichick in how he presents himself to the public. I think that's why it's taken awhile for some Packer fans to embrace him is because he doesn't show his personality in public.